[jdlshore]

I think it's more likely that this is an abuse-prevention scheme rather than a censorship scheme. If so, "what's up" is that the Internet is full of assholes, and preventing assholes from wasting your money and ruining things for everyone else is very hard to do perfectly, especially when you provide a free service with anonymous sign-up.

One way to do so is to limit the privileges of accounts without much history.

[yellowapple]

Which would be "fine" if Google was even remotely transparent in its definition of "without much history".